"Oh, to be sure, 'Love!' one heard on every side: 'Love it is that drives and sustains us!' I translate: we don't know what drives and sustains us, only that we are most miserably driven and, imperfectly, sustained. Love is how we call our ignorance of what whips us.
Night-Sea Journey by John Barth
http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/heren/2002
a horribly long read, but worth it, I promise.
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